APHG Unit 1 Test 2

Dar es Salaam is a city that has imprints from many different cultures over the last several hundred years.  What concept best explains the imprint on the landscape?

• Movement
• Culture Impact
• Sequent Occupance
• Region

The name given to a location is referred to as a

• site

• situation

• toponym

• region

Diffusion of a cultural trait begins at its

• Hearth

• Node

• Site

• Situation

According to possibilism

• the physical environment is directly responsible for a group's development

• the physical environment sets limits on humans that they can overcome by choices

• human beings are responsible for caring for their physical environment

• humans only live in places where life is possible

The clustering or dispersal of something within a given unit of area is

• concentration

• density

• pattern

• location

Which of the following best defines Carl Sauer’s concept of cultural landscape?

• It is the outcome of interactions between humans and their natural environment

• It is the way people landscape their yards in different parts of the world

• It is a shared set of meanings and symbolic practices

• It is the human adaptation to Earth’s physical environment

Hinduism first spread to the United States by

• stimulus diffusion

• relocation diffusion

• contagious diffusion

• hierarchical diffusion

the spread of a feature or trend through bodily movement of people from one place to another is called _______________

• relocation diffusion
• expansion diffusion
• hierarchical diffusion
• stimulus diffusion

the spread of a feature or trend from one key person or node or authority or power to other persons or places

• stimulus diffusion
• hierarchical diffusion
• expansion diffusion
• relocation diffusion

the spread of a disease, innovation, or cultural traits through direct contact with another person or another place

• stimulus diffusion
• contagious diffusion
• hierarchical diffusion
• relocation diffusion